21st Anniversary of the NERC
From: May 17, 2007
The Centre celebrated the 21st Anniversary of its formation on 12 February 2007 with a new logo incorporating the strapline 'Your Sight, Our Vision'. The centre and its staff really do care about your sight.
The centre is having its website redesigned and urges supporters to visit it from mid April at: http://www.nerc.co.uk to learn more about the charity, eye diseases and research to over come them.
Since its formation over £10 million has been raised for eye research, the major part of which has been allocated to eye research in Bristol, but research has also been supported in eye centres countrywide including Yorkshire, Aberdeen, Cardiff, Leicester, London, Manchester and Nottingham. Research staff supported by the charity co-operate with other eye researchers both nationally and internationally and also co-operate with researchers in university departments.
Particular research successes have been the development of the Corneal Transplant Service Eye Banks in Bristol and Manchester, the support for genetic research and the establishment of a Genetic Clinic in Bristol. In addition NERC has supported the establishment of an inflammatory eye disease group in Bristol developing new treatments for the prevention and cure of children's eye conditions.
The research group in Bristol investigating stem cell research is a leader in the field and is making exciting progress towards establishing treatments for conditions for which there is no known cure such as macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and damage to the retina caused by inflammation, stroke or injury. Support for stem cell research from the centre has led to major goverment support in this area of research and also for research into corneal graft rejection. Another success has been advances in reasearch into mucins, dry eye condition and other eye conditions involving the front of the eye.
Posted on: 2007-05-17
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